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The Red Rebellion of 1915-1916 is an event that takes place during the alternate Great War in Harry Turtledove 's Timeline-191 series. During the Great War, the Confederate States relaxed some the controls over the African American residents (They were not recognized as citizens.) because of the fighting against the United States . This, as well as receiving aid from the United States, led to a large scale uprising in the Cotton Belt of the South in 1915 . This is comparable to the revolution in 1917 in Russia . Several Socialist Republics were set up, such as the Black Belt Socialist Republic around Albany , Georgia , and the Congaree Socialist Republic around St. Matthews, South Carolina . The former butler Scipio is an unwilling leader in the later republic, through whom we are able to see what happens in the black/"red" republics. The rebellions are eventually crushed, with several thousand blacks lynched in the process. The saddest fact of the rebellion was that out of 10 million African Americans in the CSA, fewer than 10% participated. The aftermath of the rebellions lead to the stab-in-the-back theory thrown around as truth by Jake Featherston , and helps lead to the African American-targetting Holocaust he is plotting. |
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